contrast_ wrote:
Make it where every thread with the word "coupon" and "temu" is automatically put in a spam que for review. Better yet just make those keywords unpostable titles.
"coupon" maybe not, " temu " definitively, having 3 "$" sign in the first or second opened thread post could trigger a lock (for the new members registered the very same hour)...
But there are other solutions as well, like a new registered member could not open 1 thread per 5 minutes (all the spams are just copy/paste their spam and open a thread per minute), if detected the first hour after registered immediately lock that user and don't show the threads that spammer created, until a modo have a look at it to valid or invalid, also the length of the text, I mean who will post 10 000 words on a forum, especially a new registered member

counting half of the words of the latest spam send per a threads would largely be enough to detect a spammer (maybe add a condition for the text between the tags ['code]['/code], spammer won't use that)